Apparatus for cleaning candle receptacles



March 1 1927. v

v M; A. FLANNERY APPARATUS FOR CLEANING CANDLE RECEPTAGLES Filed April 5; 1922 PatentedMar.1,1927. 1,619,116 UNITED STATES P ATENT =OFF1CE.

MAEBITIN A. FLANNERY, OF YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR T & BAUMER CANDLE COMPANY INC-, 033 SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, A COBEPOB-ATION OF NEW YORK.

APPARATUS FOR; CLEANING CANDLE nEoEr'rAoLns. Application filed April 13, 1922. Serial No. 552,201.

This invention relates to certain improve, the'lnethod herein, and such apparatus ma y ments in apparatus for cleansing receptacles comprise an oven -1 of any suitable form adapted to contain candles, particularly of and shape, which may, if desired, be prothe variety known as night lights or votive vide-d with adoor or removable closure -2 5 lights. for one side of the oven to permit easy 'ac- Certain types of candles which may be cess to the interior thereof. termed night lights or tapers are ordinarily This oven may be heated in any suitable burned whileretained in receptacles for that way, asby the gas flame -3- provided for purpose, and such candles in view of the'fact this purpose. It .will be understood, how'- 10 that they are to be burned when positioned ever, that so far as this feature of the within receptacles are provided with metal method. is concerned, the heating of the disks for maintaining the wick in upright oven or chamber 1 in any suitable manposition during complete or practically comner and by any satisfactory means, is sufiiplete consumption of the candle material. cient for the purpose at hand. 1

15 After the taper, or night light has been WVithin this oven 1 is arranged one burned, it is impractical to place another or more receptacle suppoiting'member-s of candle, taper or night light in the same reunique form and construction and such ceptacle without removing the metallic disk members are adapted to support therecepwhich usually is provided with upright tacles or glasses --lin inverted position.

prongs which embrace the wick, for the rea- Therefore, the supporting member is prefson that such metallic disk with its prongs erably in the form of a foraminous perfowill tend to tip or tilt the inserted candle, rated sheet -5 which may,as shown, be met-hereby bringing the flame in contact with tallic screen material of desired size mesh and the glass causing cracking or breaking of upon this screen material the glasses L the latter. containing the residue of candle material It is found quite difiicult in practice to and the residue embedded wick supporting cleanse these candle retaining receptacles disk are adapted to be supported in inverted and to remove the residue of the candle maposition for subjection to the heat of the terial, and the metallic disk, and the object oven. These screens, or foraminous support- 30 of this invention is to provide a clean, sani ing members may be carried in any suitable tary and rapid method for cleansing such manner, and should be positioned over some receptacles and removing the residue of canliquid-receiving pan or receptacle, which is dle material and the metallic disks, and sepaadapted to receive and contain, if desired, rating the metallic disk from the residue the liquefied residue of the candle material and independently collecting the separated as it comes flows or drips from the receptaelements. and a further object is the procles 4. Perhaps preferably, as shown, vision of an apparatus efficient for the carrythe screen -5 1s arranged within a pan mg out of this invention. 6 which may, as shown, he of compara- Other objects and advantages of the in tively large superficial area and of little 40 vention reside in the details of form and condepth and within this tray or pan -6 the struction of the apparatus, and if the steps in screen or foraminous member -5 is supthe process, all as will more fully appear ported in any suitable manner, and preferfrom the following description,taken in conably spaced from the bottom of the pan. nection with the accompanying drawings, in As illustrated in Figure 3, the edge of the 45 which screen 5 may be bent downwardly a suit- Figure 1 is an elevation of an apparatus able distance so as to form supporting legs suitable for my purpose. or sections -7 the lower edge of which Figure 2 is a section through the oven rests upon the bottom of the pan or tray showing a top plan of one of the trays. -6-, while the main body of the screen is 50 Figure 3 is a section through a portion of thereby spaced from the bottom of the tray one of the trays showing the foraminous so as to maintain the receptacle 4- in sheet for supporting the candle glasses. spaced relation from the bottom of the tray As illustrated in the drawings, it is prefto permit free and easy discharge of the erable to provide a separate, independent liquefied residue from the glasses while the apparatus for the purpose of carrying out disk or wick supporting metalhc member 9 is collected by the screen 5 and separated thereby from the liquefied residue.

All of this liquefied residue may be allowed to collect in the pan or tray 6- and may be retained therein, if desired, and intermittently dumped or removed therefrom, or preferably, each pan, as shown in Figure 2, may be provided with a discharge pipe which penetrates the wall of the oven 1 and freely conveys the liquefied residue to any suitable space or suitable receiv- .1ng receptacle or other device, and for this purpose, preferably the trays -6 are supported in an inclined manner, as best shown in Figure 1 so as to feed the liquefied residue by gravity toward the end of the tray in which pipe -8 is positioned.

It will be seen that with this method the heat liquefies the candle residue remaining I in the glasses after the burning of the taper r candle has been completed, and permits the same to run or escape from the glasses through the inverted open tops thereof and thru the screen or perforated supporting member into the pan or tray 6, while the disks are preferably collected upon the upper surface of the foran'iinous member -5. After a suitable period of time has elapsed to effect the operation described, the trays may be withdrawn from the oven l or the glasses may be removed from the trays while in the oven through the opening adapted to be closed bythe swinging door 2, and it will then be found that the glasses are then in suitable condition for re-use.

Altho I have shown and described a specific apparatus as capable of carrying out my invention, I do not desire to limit myself to the details of construction, form or arrangement of the apparatus or the specific details of the process except as the same are particularly set forth in the claim hereto appended.

I claim: I

An apparatus for cleaning candle receptacles comprising an oven, means for heating the oven, a pan slidably positioned in said oven, and a wire screen member arran ed inthe pan and having itsedges flanged downwardly and resting upon the pan bottom to space the body of the wire screen from the pan. V

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 6th day of April, 1922. V

MARTIN A. FLANNERY. 

